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pp

noun, adverb

pp is spelled P-P: 2 letters. It appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form (wordfreq, 2021 data). As a noun, pp means “Initialism of percentage point” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). The plural of pp is pps.

How many letters and syllables are in pp?

Letters2: P-P
In writing24 times per million words; the 3,752nd most frequent word form
Wrong spellings searchednone measured in search

Sources: letters and syllables from the English Wiktionary's hyphenation or pronunciation; written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

How common is pp?

Pp appears 24 times per million words in written English, the 3,752nd most frequent word form in the list.

Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).

Forms of pp

  • pps plural

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

What does pp mean?

The meanings the English Wiktionary records, quoted as written there (source below).

noun

  1. 1

    Initialism of percentage point.

  2. 2

    Initialism of past participle.

  3. 3

    proton and proton (used attributively to describe a collision or other interaction of these two particles)

  4. 4

    Eye dialect spelling of pee-pee.

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of pages (plural of p).

noun

as PP
  1. 1

    Initialism of parish priest.

  2. 2

    Initialism of polypropylene.

  3. 3

    Initialism of precocious puberty.

  4. 4

    Abbreviation of prone positioning (“proning”).

  5. 5

    Abbreviation of performance points.

  6. 6

    Initialism of prepositional phrase.

    partitive PP

  7. 7

    Initialism of postpositional phrase.

  8. 8

    Initialism of past participle.

phrase

as PP
  1. 1

    Initialism of play or pay.

adverb

  1. 1

    Initialism of per person.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

Pp in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese

LanguageWords
FrenchSP (prepositional phrase), p., pp. (pages)
GermanPP (prepositional phrase), S. (pages)
Spanishpp. (pages)

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.

Where does pp come from?

Abbreviations.

Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).

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